Some of these pork barrelling grants from The Age's research are wild. The actual government buying ice compression gear for Skevs old boys, Jesus wept


So it wasn’t a miracle? twitter.com/smh/status/147…

The @RLC_CEO @ALS_NSWACT & @PIACnews are calling on the NSW government to revoke fines given to kids for minor covid rule breaches, and say they were disproportionately issued in Indigenous communities. Story via @knausc
theguardian.com/australia-news…

I'm not sure if any major media outlets would have run a piece like this, but at Crikey we have the freedom to call it as we see it: Gina Cass-Gottlieb should not be head of the ACCC.
She's been put there by Josh Frydenberg to keep the Murdochs sweet
crikey.com.au/2021/12/16/mur…

#Kooyong200, an unincorporated association, has received $1,730,480 in donations over the four years to 30 june 2021 for @JoshFrydenberg.
not a single donor behind this $1.7m has been disclosed. not one.






So Myefo 2021-22 shows a budget deficit of $57bn, but the Coalition has also kept $16bn up its sleeves for unspecified election sweeteners - if they really cared about debt and deficit they could use that $16bn to put a big dent in the deficit theguardian.com/business/2021/…

Things I didn’t know before the mouse plague:
• 2 mice can become 100k in a year
• a mouse can get pregnant immediately after giving birth (HOW EXHAUSTING)
• Mice can swim for up to 48hrs
Things I hope to learn about them now plague might be ending: 0
abc.net.au/news/2021-12-1…


if it weren’t for #independents threatening tenure of @JasonFalinskiMP, @DaveSharma & #TrentZimmerman, the PEP11 project to drill for oil & gas off sydney’s beaches would be full steam ahead.
independents. already delivering.





The Premier @DanielAndrewsMP is in isolation waiting for a test result after he was exposed to COVID at what was described as a "swanky" private party on the Elwood foreshore on Saturday night @theage #springst